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Visto Receives Prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award


Rapid growth in revenue and subscribers places company at the forefront of Silicon Valley success

Redwood City, California, November 6, 2007 – Visto, the leading global provider of secure, easy-to-use mobile email, today announced it has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley. The Technology Fast 50 is a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in the region by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2002–2006.

Brian Bogosian, Visto's chairman, president and CEO, credits Visto’s success to its advanced technology optimized to work on most smartphones and relationships with many of the world’s largest and most successful carriers, which has increased the subscriber base by 250 percent over the last 18 months and the company’s revenue by more than 1200 percent in the last five years. Visto has partnered with leading mobile operators worldwide to offer the company’s flagship product, Visto Mobile™ with the service plans and devices that make mobile email accessible to all individuals – not just the top-ranking executives.

“We are honored to be recognized by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program, which is a testament to our team, our technology and to our partners who have sold our products to their subscribers worldwide. Deloitte’s selection of Visto is based on the cold hard facts of growth and revenue,” said Bogosian.  “The market for mobile email on non-Blackberry devices has grown rapidly over the last five years, and Visto has led the growth in this market.  Our rapid expansion in more than 20 countries is indicative of the strength of the company and our compelling market proposition, as the global demand for mobile email expands to hundreds of millions of users.”

“Deloitte’s Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the strength, vision and tenacity to succeed in today’s very competitive technology environment,” said Mark Jensen, partner and national director, Venture Capital Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP.  “We applaud the successes of Visto and acknowledge it as one of the very few to accomplish such a fast growth rate over the past five years.”

Fast 50 Selection and Qualifying Criteria
Visto is ranked number 15 in the Internet, Media & Entertainment and Communication category of the Technology Fast 50 for Silicon Valley. To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2002 and $5,000,000 in 2006, be headquartered in Silicon Valley, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology.  Using other companies' technology or intellectual property in a unique way does not qualify.

Companies from the 16 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America’s top 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies.  For more information on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 or Technology Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

This year’s Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program is co-presented by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and Silicon Valley Bank, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Korn/Ferry International, and Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.

About Visto
Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide easy-to-use wireless push email to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto’s open solution enables email for the mass market, targeting enterprises, small businesses mobile professionals and consumers. The company’s patented Visto Mobile™ platform with ConstantSync™ technology works in real time with POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino email solutions for personal to business use, providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice for the customer. Visto’s customized, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide including AT&T-Cingular, Elisa, Rogers Wireless, Qtel, SFR, SmarTone, Softbank Mobile, Sotto Wireless Sprint Nextel, TELUS, Turkcell and the Vodafone Group. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, Toronto, London, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Tokyo, and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Altitude Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, DFJ Growth Fund, Rustic Canyon Ventures, GKM Newport, Stanford Accelerator and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or email info@visto.com.

About Deloitte
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates.  As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other’s acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names “Deloitte”, “Deloitte & Touche”, “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu” or other related names. Services are provided by the member firms or their subsidiaries or affiliates and not by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein.

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the US member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.  In the US, services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.



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